Open Museum Guidebooks: A Citizen Science Experience
Welcome
The idea: Museums have a calendar of exhibitions and a catalogue of what is on display in any given show. But this is not published in data repositories.
Welcome to ‘Open Museum’! If museums made deposits of open data of what’s on show - then their visitors could make ‘playlists’ of their favourite works and share them online.
The ‘Open Museum’ pitch is that the public take part in this cataloguing and a Citizen Science Experience.
The prototype ‘Open Museum Guidebooks’ has outlined the idea and is sharing the ‘how to’ model using Wikibase as a foundation. We believe all the infrastructure is already out there and with luck museums back catalogues could be online in no time (famous last words).
A project made the students of the Bachelor of Arts Information Management (BIM) of Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts in partnership with Computational Publishing Service from the Open Science Lab, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, and with NFDI4Culture – Consortium for Research Data on Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage, as part of National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)
